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Question Time: The NBN Rollout in Indi

In the middle of the year, in the second quarter of this year, we expect to have the NBN’s revised corporate plan which will set out its three year plan. I know that everybody, my colleagues on the government side and I am sure all other members, is anxious to know when the construction work will begin in every single neighbourhood. It is proceeding at a much greater pace than it was under the Labor Party.

Question Time: Reforming Australia Post

Australia Post faces a real existential threat. Its letters business is declining year after year and we are now at a point where the losses in the letters business, which have total since 2008 over $1½ billion, will shortly overwhelm the profits in the rest of the business. If nothing is done to reform Australia Post the government could over the next decade have to tip in nearly $7 billion of subsidies.

Doorstop Interview - NSW Election Campaign in Coogee

Transcript - Doorstop - NBN Switch On in Queanbeyan

In Queanbeyan nearly 2,900 premises ready for service with fibre to the premises. There is another 11,000 premises where the construction is either underway or it is being prepared for construction. And there are about 11,000 premises where the fibre to the node, multi-technology mix, technology deployment will be taking place in the course of this year.